Introduction
The directory structure of a Daravel application is similar to that of PHP's Laravel.
Your project structure will look like below after successfully creating a daravel project.
my-project/
|--app/
| |--http/
| | |--controllers/
| | | |--controller.dart
| | | |--home_controller.dart
| | |--middleware/
| |--bootstrap
| | |--.gitignore
| | |--app.dart
| | |--config.dart /* generated */
| |--config
| | |--app.dart
| | |--database.dart
| |--models/
| | |--user.dart
| |--core
| | |--helpers.dart
| |--database
| | |--migrations/
| | | |--migrations.dart /* generated */
| | | |--2024_11_02_05_21_12_create_users_table.dart
| | | |--2024_11_05_05_21_50_create_roles_table.dart
| |--public/
| | |--index.html
| |--resources
| | |--views/
| | |--css/
| | |--js/
| |--routes
| | |--api.dart
| | |--web.dart
| |--test/
| | |--server_test.dart
|--.dockerignore
|--.env.example
|--.gitignore
|--analysis_options.yaml
|--Dockerfile
|--main.dart
|--pubspec.yaml
|--README.md
Generated Files
As Dart is a compiled language, Daravel relies on code generation to make certain files available to the core app instance in order to function as intended. at any point in time when you need to generate the necessary files for your project, you can run the below:
dartisan generate
At this time, the files generated are bootstrap/config.dart which is a map of all the files in the app/config directory, and database/migrations/migrations.dart which contains a list of migration classes contained in the database/migrations directory.
Helpers
Your helpers are usually located in the app/helpers directory, though it can be anywhere, while Daravel helper functions can be found in the core folder which contains a single helper.dart with functions like env() and app().